[Video] Q23: The author’s attitude toward pharming is best described as one of

Explanation for Question 23 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 23 says the author's attitude toward farming is best described as one of 2 what. So let's look into the passage for some context here. 3 If we look in the first passage, it gives us kind of a quick 4 introduction to farming. It says welcome to the world of farming in which simple 5 genetic tweaks turn animals into living pharmaceutical factories. 6 So that's exactly what farming is. 7 You can see in the sentences before this description, 8 that the author describes it as a dream. 9 And it's talking about creating genetically engineered animals that save human 10 lives. So those are all positive things. 11 And then if you look down here, it says all that was left to 12 do was to collect the milk and extract and purify the protein at Villa 13 human medicine. So this is conveying a very 14 excited tone, and then it's also being described as a 15 liquid gold. 16 So that's another thing. So you can see here that the author has a 17 pretty positive opinion of this world of farming. 18 It's saving human lives, it's advancing human medicine, 19 things like that. So let's look at the answer choices here. So answer choice 20 a says apprehension. So that's going to be incorrect. 21 That has more of a negative kind of vibe. 22 So apprehension means something like you're hesitant about something. 23 So in this case, the author would be hesitant about the positive effects 24 of farming answer choice B says ambivalence, 25 which is going to be equivalent to something like indiffere...